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The key factor for successful globalisation

The globalisation cockpit for designing the operation footprint

Our German and European customers are leaders in globalisation. This is because they produce high-quality products in a constantly optimised production and logistics network. In fast-moving world markets, production networks are forced to continually realign. Copy:

There are various reasons for this:

Opening up new markets

Cost pressure caused by changing market conditions

Change in depth of production

The establishment of competence centres and setting up central manufacturing

The procurement of new factories as part of acquisitions and mergers

Merging of locations

The need to increase ‘local content’

Metroplan - Approach and methodology Improvements and cost potentials can be rapidly identified with the certified globalisation cockpit. Benchmarks determine and help further increase a company’s competitiveness. If production is relocated, the production relocation coefficient of staff and machinery cost provides an overview of the processes which are to be moved. Operation research-based modelling procedures can allow companies to assess their operation footprint alternatives in a cost-effective way.

The Metroplan approach includes

an analysis of the production structures and locations with regard to the underlying production and logistics processes, as well as the overall supply chain

developing and evaluating options such as regionalisation, centralisation, merging or relocating production and logistics sites

global location search, analysing and evaluating potential locations

assigning tasks within the production network for new and existing sites

a feasibility study of the new production network

planning a development strategy to gradually implement the production network

transferring the planning for the production network to the planning and implementation of production sites

BU: The globalisation cockpit for designing the operation footprint

Customer benefits When reorganising and optimising production networks, you make strong inroads into the independent interests of existing locations. Metroplan provides support for such processes. This helps to objectify orientation, planning, decision planning and implementation strategies, and to develop solutions as part of an optimal network. Examining a production network early on and regularly helps to avoid crisis situations. This in turn ensures long-term corporate success. Metroplan clients obtain a number of advantages whenever they optimise their production network:

Produce economically sustainable products and sell them around the world